Did Attack on Titan's ending betray everything the show built for 10 years?
Some call it a brave tragedy. Others say it threw a decade of brilliant storytelling into the trash in the final chapters. Where do you land?
Some call it a brave tragedy. Others say it threw a decade of brilliant storytelling into the trash in the final chapters. Where do you land?
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Add your commentEren basically asking Armin to make him look like a victim is the most realistically human thing any anime villain has ever done.
People hating the ending are the same people who wanted a clean hero victory in a show literally about the cycle of hatred. Read the room.
The 'paths' explanation was the moment the show lost half its audience and we all just nodded along pretending we understood.
I will never forgive what they did to Eren's character in the last arc. They flattened a tragic genius into a confused puppy.
Ten years of the smartest writing in anime and it ends with 'Eren did it because he loved his friend, also birds.' I'm still not okay.
Mikasa carrying that decision alone is one of the most devastating endings I've ever sat through. Cried for a week.
Genuinely think AoT has the best build-up and the most divisive payoff in anime history. Both things are true at once.
Isayama wrote himself into a corner so deep that no ending could've satisfied us. We expected a miracle and got a tragedy.
Manga ending and anime ending fans are about to start a second war in these replies and I'm here for it.
The first three seasons are a 10/10 masterpiece. The ending dragged the whole thing down to a 7. Painful to type but true.
The ending was thematically perfect and you all just wanted Eren to win a fight. The whole point was that there are no winners.
I rewatched it knowing the ending and it actually hits harder. The foreshadowing was always there, you just didn't want to see it.
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